Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Compassion

• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Compassion

• No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Matter, Bees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

• A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Compassion, Church

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

• The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

• But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Lovely, Degrading

• A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Moving, Compassion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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